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ABE LINCOLN ON "CONSPIRACY THEORIES"

[from INDISPENSABLE ENEMIES The Politics of Misrule in America
by Walter Karp, page 117]

....One more point needs to be made here: some people, I suspect, will object to the preceding analysis as grossly "conspiratorial" or "paranoid," as the cant phrases go. This is as good a place as any to clear the air. When it can be established that a number of political acts work in concert to produce a certain result, the presumption is strong that the actors were aiming at the result in question. When it can be shown, in addition, that the actors have an interest in producing those results, the presumption becomes a fair certainty.. No conspiracy theory is required. It is common sense applied to the actual deeds of men without recourse to begged questions about the character of the actors, for in politics, as I have said, we judge the character of men by their deeds and not their deeds by presumptions about their character. On the other hand, those who make blanket condemnations of "conspiracy theories" base their own view on a farfetched theory indeed, namely that whatever those in high office actually do, they are essentially men of goodwill. According to this school of special pleading -- the "King can do no wrong" doctine suitably updated -- it is entirely proper to praise an American President for skillfully engineering some desirable result, but to note the same skillful engineering of an indefensible one is to fall victim to "political paranoia" and "conspiratorial fetishism" on a par with subscribing to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

A good antidote to this infectious nonsense may be found in reading a speech delivered in 1858 by a man who would later become President of the United States. In that speech the orator describes in minute detail a complex series of acts taken by the then current party powers to legitimize the extension of slavery. He shows, for example, how those who passed the Nebraska Act of 1854 had put into it certain seemingly innocuous phrases which became, in his words, an "exact niche" for the Dred Scott decision, a decision which, he also shows, was well known in advance to the power wielders. After describing these and related actions in dense and remorseless detail, the speaker then concluded: "We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers...joined together and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortices exactly fitting...we find it impossible not to believe that [the ruling politicians] all understood each other from the beginning and all worked on a common plan." If, after reading this speech, anyone is still ready to denounce as paranoid the political analysis of political deeds, he will have to admit that Abraham Lincoln was suffering from "conspiratorial fetishism" and that when he called upon his fellow citizens, in his words, to "meet and overthrow the present ruling dynasty" he labored under the paranoid delusion that the dynasts had been acting together....

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Press Release, AE911Truth.org: 640 Architects and Engineers Call for New 9/11 Investigation

Evidence of Explosives Found in Destruction of All 3 WTC High-Rises

AE911Truth to Display Evidence at National AIA Convention 4/30 — 5/2, Moscone Center
Press Conference/Speaking Engagement Saturday May 2 at 4 pm, Westin Market Street Hotel

http://www.ae911truth.org/info/55

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Dear Some of The Above News,

Judge Jay Bybee signed the first of four infamous Bush-era memos authorizing torture -- torture in the name of the people of the United States. George Bush then awarded Bybee his lifetime appointment as a federal judge.

Fire Judge Bybee now:

http://thinkprogress.org/impeach-jay-bybee/

The torture techniques Bybee authorized are illegal, both by U.S. laws and by international treaties we have sponsored. Bybee broke the ethical, professional, and legal standards that should govern lawyers. Judge Jay Bybee has neither the legal nor moral authority to sit in judgment of others, and should be impeached.

The first step to remove Bybee from his lifetime appointment is for the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings.

You can send an email directly to key Judiciary Committee staffers. They want to hear from you:

http://thinkprogress.org/impeach-jay-bybee/

Tell them torture is not an American value, and ask them to take the next step to fire Judge Bybee.

-- J. R. Boynton and the CAP Action Engagement team

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Right Wing Astroturf Tea Party

[The REAL Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt CNBC Correspondent Rick Santelli called for a "Chicago Tea Party" on Feb 19th in protesting President Obama's plan to help homeowners in trouble. Santelli's call was answered by the right-wing group FreedomWorks, which funds campaigns promoting big business interests, and is the opposite of what the real Boston Tea Party was.]

Anti-tax "tea party" organizers are delivering one million tea bags to a Washington, D.C., park Wednesday morning - to promote protests across the country by people they say are fed up with high taxes and excess spending.

The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America.... http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/15-10

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Daniel Sunjata interviewed by Eric Deggans, media critic of the St. Petersburg Times.

The interview appears on TampaBay.com on his blog entitled "The Feed." 4/6/09:

....when critics asked the minds behind FX's blockbuster firefighter drama Rescue Me about the inspiration for a storyline where one of the guys insists the 9/11 terrorist attacks was an inside job, they simply pointed to cast member Daniel Sunjata, who plays Franco.

That's because Sunjata, a buff, accomplished actor who has played everyone from Reggie Jackson to Langston Hughes, believes a faction in the American government pulled off the attack.

"There’s alternative theories about what really happened on 9/11," he told TV critics in January. "They’re not discussed a lot in the press....
http://www.911blogger.com/node/19779

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T H E N & N O W

(Waiting For The Twenty-first Century to Blow Over)

....There were still naysayers, as there would be throughout Roosevelt's presidency, but they were now relegated to the margins. Tugwell dismissed these stubborn anti-New Dealers as "willful beneficiaries of the Old Order, who in the words of a gifted Englishman -- sat 'waiting for the twentieth century to blow over.'" But the twentieth century did not blow over. A new America had been born.
(From the Introduction to NOTHING TO FEAR, FDR's inner circle and the hundred days that created modern America, by Adam Cohen (2009)

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A prompt, decisive man, no breath
Our father wasted: "Boys, a path!"
Well pleased, (for when did farmer boy
Count such a summons less than joy?)
Our buskins on our feet we drew;
With mittened hands, and caps drawn low,
To guard our necks and ears from snow,
We cut the solid whiteness through.
(From SNOWBOUND by John Greenleaf Whittier)
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Two Connecticut teens accused of attacking dad with snow shovels when he asked for help shoveling
By Associated Press
9:35 AM EST, March 3, 2009

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Stamford police say two teenagers who refused to help their father shovel snow from the driveway allegedly attacked him with shovels....

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Dealing With Health Insurance Companies As Near-Death Experience

A typical complaint, this one from Pat, a seventy-something in a small mill town in the midwest:

"....We have Blue Cross/Blue Shield now but they keep going up. It's our third year and our premiums have doubled and this year they want us to co-pay too."

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Dear Readers,

I have just read and signed the petition: "Support Single Payer Health Care"

Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and join me in
signing the petition. It takes just 30 seconds, but can truly make a
difference. Please sign here:
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Once you have signed, you can help even more by asking your friends and
family to sign as well.

Thank you!

Myra M. Jackson
Some of The Above New

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Actor and activist Ed Asner has signed the Architects and Engineers for 911Truth (AE911Truth) online petition and sent a letter of support.

The text of the letter reads:

EDWARD ASNER

October 6, 2008

To Whom It May Concern:

I would like to thank Richard Gage, AIA and Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth for presenting the scientific facts behind the unprecedented destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7. AE911Truth presents solid research that contradicts the official story of the building's destruction with the overwhelming evidence of explosive controlled demolition.

An accurate understanding of history is required to make good decisions in the future. Over and over again, history has shown that the first public perceptions of historical events are not always correct. I, along with millions of others, have serious questions about our country's recent history about 9/11.

I have signed the AE911Truth.org petition calling for an unbiased investigation of the "collapses" of these three high-rise buildings. I encourage everyone to do the same, and also become a Sustaining Member of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

Sincerely,

/s/

Edward Asner

View the full news item at http://www.AE911Truth.org

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[BUSH (crime) FAMILY VALUES]

Published on Friday, May 9, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH FOR MURDER.
by Vincent Bugliosi

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/09/8834/

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